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| + | ====Inception==== | ||
| + | OS within an OS! | ||
| + | ====Objectives==== | ||
| + | - Setup a fully functional guest operating system within the host system. | ||
| + | - grasp fundamentals of the Xen virtualization software. | ||
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| + | ====Prerequisites==== | ||
| + | This is a base project and therefore one only needs a common understanding of his surroundings and an open mind. | ||
| + | ====Background==== | ||
| + | Virtualization intals a host computer running one or many guest operating systems at any given time. Today our computers have far more processing capability then a short time ago, because of this we now have the ability to run several virtualized operating systems within one PC. | ||
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| + | Virtualization is environmentally safe and economically sustainable. | ||
| + | ====Scope==== | ||
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| + | ====Attributes==== | ||
| + | Linux VM Server install, One star | ||
| + | ====Procedure==== | ||
| + | - Netboot 32/64 bit Debian Lenny on your host system. | ||
| + | - Go through the installation. When you're prompted to select your software mirrors select: " | ||
| + | - For our lab46 installation of the host system we'll load the internal mirror, for mirror we're going to type: mirror | ||
| + | - Set your user name and default password. | ||
| + | - Once your system is online you're going to remove your user account. To do this type; " | ||
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| + | Before we go on we must grab a proper package manager within lab46 to do this follow these commands: | ||
| + | <cli> | ||
| + | vmserver03:# | ||
| + | vmserver03:/ | ||
| + | vmserver03:/ | ||
| + | vmserver03:/ | ||
| + | vmserver03:/ | ||
| + | </ | ||
| + | We're going to change all our sources to lenny in this case so any reference of " | ||
| + | ' | ||
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| + | - Now we need to update Aptitude. At the prompt type: " | ||
| + | - Aptitude is now up to date. We're now going to go out and grab our necessary files for Xen vm server install. At the prompt type: " aptitude search xen" | ||
| + | - Grab your appropriate xen configuration files for your system: " | ||
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| + | ====Reflections==== | ||
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| + | ====References==== | ||
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